Canonical

Microservices Engineer

Global (Remote)

Mid to Senior

REMOTE

Canonical is hiring Microservices Engineers across all seniority levels to build and maintain back-end REST API services in Go and Python. These services power millions of Ubuntu clients and critical global infrastructure. The role is fully remote with twice-yearly in-person team events. You will design APIs, write scalable and fault-tolerant software, contribute to technical documentation, and collaborate with a globally distributed team. Canonical values strong academic backgrounds, proficiency in Python and/or Go, and experience with databases, CI/CD, and Linux systems.

Python

REST API design

Microservices architecture

Relational databases

Non-relational databases

CI/CD

Linux

Systems programming

Scalable web services

Technical documentation

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